3 US states recount votes, Donald Trump 'vents anger' on Hillary Clinton

Newly elected US President Donald J. Trump strongly accused that he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton in the November 8 general election because millions of people voted illegally for the Democratic candidate.

"In addition to winning the Electoral College by a landslide, I would also win the popular vote if you exclude the millions of people who voted illegally," Trump wrote on Twitter on the afternoon of November 27.

US President-elect Donald J. Trump has expressed anger at the proposal to recount votes in three US states: Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

US President-elect Donald J. Trump has expressed anger at the proposal to recount votes in three US states: Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

According to the New York Times, Mr. Trump's baseless accusation was part of a "Twitter storm" with a series of posts expressing the billionaire's anger at the proposal to recount votes in three US states: Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania - all where the Republican candidate won by a narrow margin.

However, neither Mr. Trump nor his aides have provided any evidence that “millions” of voters allegedly voted illegally. Mr. Trump has also not explained why he would oppose a recount if the illegal voting situation is so serious.

On November 27, Mr. Trump and his aides posted a series of statements on Twitter expressing strong reactions to the issue of recounting votes in the three battleground states, calling it "absurd" and "a waste of time".

"I could have won even easier and more convincingly (but some smaller states were overlooked)," Trump tweeted on November 27.

Additionally, in a series of posts on Twitter, Mr. Trump reiterated his request that Mrs. Clinton respect the election process.

Clinton's campaign has announced it will join the recount effort in Wisconsin and possibly Michigan and Pennsylvania, led by the US Green Party.

Mr Trump’s accusations echo his claims during the campaign that polls showing Mrs Clinton leading him were rigged or manipulated, but he has not mentioned the issue since his surprise victory on November 8.

Meanwhile, Ms. Kellyanne Conway, Mr. Trump's campaign manager, warned on November 27 that if Mrs. Clinton's team participates in promoting the recount process in Wisconsin, the president-elect may rethink his commitment not to seek to prosecute Mrs. Clinton for her use of personal email when she was Secretary of State.

Speaking on ABC, Ms. Conway said that Mr. Trump had been "noble" to Ms. Clinton, but she believed that Clinton would ask her lawyers to participate in the recount.

Additionally, Trump's White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, said that although the president-elect is not "looking for ways or means to prosecute Mrs. Clinton," he would "like to hear" if there were any other new findings against her in future investigations.

Election monitors have yet to point out any large-scale irregularities. In addition, although Clinton lost to Trump by a very narrow margin, by only about 1% of the vote, it is unlikely that she will be able to close the gap if the ballots are recounted. For example, it is unlikely that she will be able to make up for the 70,000 votes in Pennsylvania, while she would need to win all three states to have enough electoral votes to overturn the result.

The Green Party said the recount was not about opposing Mr. Trump, but about respecting democracy and demonstrating that the system is flawed.

However, incumbent President Barack Obama declared that the election was fair and “accurately reflected the will of the American people”: “We believe our election was free and fair from a cybersecurity perspective,”

According to Dan Viet